foreverlomsak

entitled and believe they cannot be held responsible for anything, u-tube is full of clips showing that (you can't arrest me, your a public servant and have to do what I tell you) and also the effects of thinking that way

That's probably why 2 of my local afternoon/early evening watering holes have put their prices up by 10 Baht on a 620 ml bottle, so that when the actual taxes are reduced they can sell at the original price again.

I have collected 3 or 4 prizes over the years, all smallish sums I'll admit, and a friend collected a 60,000 Baht prize once.

Does anybody know if this is going to have any impact on banks and Immigration closure days, or has that yet got to be decided?

Good teaching or not, if it succeeds does it matter. Think about what you say, do you always use fully grammatically correctly sentences, the object as far as I was concerned was to get them comfortable with speaking English so long as it was understandable, e.g. correct is "Where is the train station", understandable is "Station train is where", which is a translation of the Thai question.

Money for Mooney

He doesn't have to be good at punctuation, spelling or grammar, if his school is the same as the 5 I've taught at. The Thai teachers, at all levels, were responsible for all three, the foreign teachers were contracted to teach a subject called "English Conversation" only, in other words speaking in English which does not need to be correct in any of the three.

easy enough to buy beer in bulk to take home and consume miserably on your own, but it's more enjoyable to drink and chat with friendly companions whatever the hour.

Been taking lessons from Epstein

I've had my Thai ID number for 22 years (pink card less as they initially were not issuing them to Westerners), and by the way in Thailand we're all aliens ID no or not.

If banks, DLT, et al, would all use the pink card/yellow book number (which is an official government ID No), they wouldn't have any extra work to do when passports, etc., are renewed. This also applies to the likes of store cards e.g. Big C

According to my local DLT office, Phetchabun, the Pink Card/Yellow Book ID No cannot be used for your driving license only your passport no can be shown, your office may be different of course, TIT, good luck. Also my local SCB branch used my passport and not my pink card for my accounts so every time I do anything in branch I must have my passport with me, not sure if local rules or not.

I'm on the 800k in the bank and have been for years, I only bring in what I want to spend, the 800k stays in the bank year in year out, for example if I bring in nothing for the next few years I will still get my annual extensions, so saying every expat must bring 400k/800k into Thailand every year for a retirement extension and massive tax bills borders on scare mongering. Those on Monthly Income do not have to show that any money is actually brought into Thailand only that they receive that level of income (UK, US and AUS are different as they need to show the money arriving in their account as they cannot get embassy income statements). Note Thailand can only tax what arrives in Thailand not what stays outside. Just as matter of interest I expect that my tax bill for bringing in my all my 2024 income not would result in a massive tax bill, my calculations show it to be in the order of 1,200 Baht maximum for the year, only because the UK exchange rate is so high at the moment. As the rules are written just now (may be changed in the future who knows) you have a 100k deduction plus a 60k personal allowance, if married a further 60k spouse allowance, if over 65 or disabled a further 190k allowance (there are other allowances) and the first 150k of taxable income is rated at 0%, then the next 150k is taxed at 5%, the next 200k at 10% and so on. IMHO nothing looks massive unless you are bringing in over 3 million per year, even then???. And don't forget the Double Taxation or other rules/agreements that are applicable to the source country(s) of your income.

Thanks for the comment, I have heard before that DWP will deposit to WISE, other pension is from Mercer (ex SIPS) good to know that they will also. Am going to try Standard Life again, It's only a smallish annual annuity, but enough for a few boxes of beer. My UK bank does not give any interest and needs 2,500GBP to be maintained in the account to keep it charge free

So get them to pay the pension direct to WISE. I contacted Standard Life about a year ago to have my pensions paid direct to my WISE account, answer was WISE are a finance house not a bank and Head Office say pensions must be paid into a bank account, therefore no can do. Would like to know if Standard Life has changed their attitude on this.

Yeah the banks are good at saying we will do, they start off good and then fall by the wayside.

check your SCB account transfer limits mine are set at 5,000-00 per day

Follow your logic, however the 5% is paid on 150k only (the difference between the 150k (exempt) and the upper limit of 300k, result tax would be 7.5k giving a year total of 15.5k

Bangkok Bank is the only one I know that needs 7 to 10 days for a 12 month statement, 6 months can be done on the spot. I use SCB for my statement for Immigration and they do 12 months on the spot along with the ownership letter.

so I have found out, but Bangkok Bank does allow use of the VPN, as does both my UK bank web based apps.

one of the problems associated with not doing your own extensions

So you're on annual extensions, why don't you just extend for 1 year more (only 1,900 Baht, a lot cheaper than a border run) and leave when you like. When you leave do not get a re-entry permit, that will get what's left of your annual extension cancelled.

Only boxes you need fill in is the passport no & country, then click on the magnifying glass icon the system will complete the form for you, if you have input the passport no correctly. If not then check the passport no. Only time you need to check the auto input data is first time after an extension, when you need to change your valid to date. If you have a new passport I believe you have to do the first report in person.

Many doctors work for 2 hospitals, say State in the morning, then Private in the afternoon, some have private clinics as well.

Registered address with Wise is Thailand, to change to a UK address needs proof of residence. Which is why I cannot take up the Interest Option for deposits into Wise either.